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Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Tables 10 A preface on practical issues 11 General aim of this book 11 Spelling conventions used in this book 13 Map of Iceland 14 Acknowledgements 15 Abbreviations 16 Chapter 1 Medieval Iceland 17 Setting the scene 17 Why Iceland? 19 Where did the settlers come from? 21 Medieval Iceland society 23 Religion 26 Why did medieval Icelanders write so much and so well? 27 Chapter 2 What is an Old Norse-Icelandic saga? 29 The term Old Norse 29 What is an Old Norse-Icelandic saga? 30 Saga in the medieval lexicon 31 How are sagas different from non-sagas? 36 The view from inside the text 39 Kinds of sagas 43 Chapter 3 The genesis of the Icelandic saga 53 Theories of saga origins 54 A major controversy in studies of saga origins: bookprose versus freeprose 55 Studies of oral cultures and their impact on saga studies 57 Vernacular literacy in medieval Iceland 59 The growth of saga conventions 64 Concepts of authorship 66 Chapter 4 Saga chronology 68 The politics of saga chronology 70 The evidence of the manuscripts 73 Dating criteria 77 External criteria 78 Internal criteria – literary borrowings 80 Some tentative conclusions 85 Chapter 5 Saga subj
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- Author
- Margaret Clunies Ross
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction